There s no difference between the corrupt and non corrupt officials.

Significant increases in education coupled with little modern job creation and rapid rural urban migration added to social and political unrest.

The oil regimes were oppressive, quelled dissent through torture, and were venal and corrupt.

They see what we see a region where autocratic countries seem corrupt and paralyzed.

Filipinos also compared Lolong to corrupt politicians whom they tagged as bigger crocodiles in government.

These groups work in cahoots with corrupt politicians who assist the thugs in expanding their unlawful logging businesses.

But recovering the billions of dollars stolen by corrupt leaders and officials in the developing world has so far proved to be a lengthy process.

The environmental destruction of the delta is part of a larger saga corrupt companies operating hand in hand with corrupt government officials.

But in China, the brand has unwittingly found itself enmeshed in tales that illustrate the powerlessness of ordinary Chinese against the powerful and corrupt.

Bank lending to sovereign borrowers has been a double disaster, fostering over indebtedness, especially in countries with irresponsible or corrupt governments.

Much of the public is disenchanted by the instability caused by fractious and corrupt parliamentary leaders and by the Maoist insurgency, which has cost 12,000 lives in nine years.

Similarly, regulation and enforcement to prevent market abuse was justifiable, because rational agents can also be greedy, corrupt, or even criminal.

Quoting the report, Twitter user szeyan1220 believed foreign investment has been exploited by corrupt government officials to transfer huge amounts of their wealth offshore

At first glance, the Turkish model with its emphasis on secularism and democracy has obvious appeal in a region burdened by corrupt, autocratic, incompetent, and inefficient governments.

By many accounts, government officials have become less corrupt than in earlier decades, and the World Bank gives the US a high score (above the 90th percentile) on control of corruption.

But crime would not be as powerful as it is, and the police and judiciary would not be as corrupt, if Serbia's economy were in better shape.

There have even been demands that countries honor contracts signed by previous non democratic and corrupt governments, even when the International Monetary Fund and other multilateral organizations have recommended that the contract be abrogated.

Nonetheless, today s Saudi princes appear to recognize that something has genuinely changed in the Middle East The younger generation of Arabs is no longer prepared to accept unaccountable, corrupt, and brutal governments.

Back in the early 2000 s, the United Nations Development Program published two reports by Arab public servants and academics that examined the factors underlying the economic stagnation of much of the Middle East. In too many countries, they found women were marginalized (though, to be fair, not in Tunisia), education was dominated by religion, and government was autocratic, unaccountable, and corrupt.

In too many countries, they found women were marginalized (though, to be fair, not in Tunisia), education was dominated by religion, and government was autocratic, unaccountable, and corrupt.

. . . the point that shines through in the documents revealed by the ICIJ is the fact that doors were opened at every turn for wealthy criminals and politicians with corrupt connections doors which are routinely slammed in the faces of refugees seeking a path out of war and destruction.

In the Name of the People should have been called Feudal Hereditary System , as the drama suggests peasants children are likely to be corrupt officials and villains while officials children are mostly upright officials and good people.

But the point that shines through in the documents revealed by the ICIJ is the fact that doors were opened at every turn for wealthy criminals and politicians with corrupt connections doors which are routinely slammed in the faces of refugees seeking a path out of war and destruction.

Indeed, while the Arab Spring ended the old corrupt bargain that kept so many autocratic rulers in power across the Muslim world, Zardari and his associates appear not to have received the message.